Formula 1 Playdate | PortMaster | Page 1

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 2:16 PM

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Formula 1 Playdate is a small, fictive formula 1 game & watch style lcd game with high score keeping. The Game was initially created over a decade ago for a small retrogame competition, after which it got ported to the gp2x then to the playdate and then back to SDL2 using a playdate runtime. This version is based on the gp2x version but with added high score saving.

Instructions:
Game is ready to run

Tested on:
(X) [480 x 320] (RG351P)
(X) [640x480] (RG35XX Plus, 351V)
(X) [720x720] (RGB30)
(X) [Higher Res] (RG503)
(X) AmberELEC (351V)
(X) JELOS (RGB30)
(X) ArkOS (RGB30, RG503, RG351P)
(X) muOS (armhf) (RG35XX plus)

Notes:

game was initially 1 bit game as playdate is 1 bit screen, but in my Playdate runtime i added options for extra (colored) assets and the game boots up with colored graphics, you can press X button to switch between the different sources (so 1 bit graphics & colored graphics)

Latest zip here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1216389262946336900/1216547483442745374/formula_1_playdate.zip?ex=6600c922&is=65ee5422&hm=b47b41e4d7b6ac9bca081146787f6bfff108fb9ddc681c0798d91bdafa4809ac&

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 2:25 PM

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<@&1216123318122577972>

tidal stream Mar 10, 2024, 8:14 PM

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Works and plays great on RG503/ArkOS

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 9:55 PM

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351V (640x480) Amberelec works great

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@lilac kettle maybe for 480x320?

lilac kettle Mar 10, 2024, 10:06 PM

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I can do tomorrow when I get home

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 10:07 PM

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Or @drifting heath / @kindred light if aynone is faster ^^

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:45 PM

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should i update main post when people tested things like the amberelec test ?

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or wait for more devices / confirmations

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 10:46 PM

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loud nova should i update main post when people tested things like the amberelec test ?

I always do it but its up to the porter 🙂

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I always write whats left and update it

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:46 PM

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ok

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i can possible test on the X55 the higher res thing

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i think that runs on a higher res than 640x480

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 10:49 PM

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loud nova i can possible test on the X55 the higher res thing

503 is high res already 🙂

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:49 PM

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ah i see

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 10:50 PM

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"high res"

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😄

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but yeah greater than 640x480

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:50 PM

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ok so i'll update that also

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 10:54 PM

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Sounds like it’s all good to go then?

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:55 PM

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only low res needs testing

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 10:55 PM

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Ahhh

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 10:56 PM

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RG351P/ArkOS:

📎 log.txt

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 10:56 PM

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kindred light RG351P/ArkOS:

😄

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@tough umbra I wonder how this happens all the time on ark

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:56 PM

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it needs portmaster update

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 10:56 PM

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Just ran that after the first crash and still got this

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 10:57 PM

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You might have a bugged PortMaster install.

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 10:57 PM

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i had same issues on my rgb30 arkos

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 10:57 PM

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Possible. My version of PM reports 8.7.4

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 10:57 PM

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Oh yeah that’s old. lol

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Download the latest installer and reinstall it.

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 10:59 PM

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I think it appears that way. It all makes sense. I tried to manually check for updates from the PM GUI and it says the latest is 2024.03.10-1231 and despite confirming to perform the update it fails to do so. Time to update PortMaster... MANUALLY Muahahahahaha

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I'll report back

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:00 PM

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ok thanks

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:06 PM

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@tough umbra Is the latest release supposed to report version 8.6.1?

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I grabbed the zip from here
https://github.com/PortsMaster/PortMaster-New/releases

GitHub

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loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:11 PM

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on my rgb30 arkos it reports 2024.03.10-0841 after downgrading to stable. Klopttops had given me some link to an installer sh file to do the install when i had same issue

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:13 PM

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Right on. Do you happen to know where I can grab that link rq?

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:14 PM

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it's in #lounge-dev here #lounge-dev message

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but not sure if thats still valid with the recent release

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:15 PM

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loud nova but not sure if thats still valid with the recent release

True, but perhaps it'll be close enough that it'll update cleanly after the fact.

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:15 PM

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yeah updates work for me now

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it exact same issue as you had initially on my rgb30 arkos it would not update

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also had the issue of ${DEVICE_ARCH} var not being set

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normally it tries to run ./formula_1_playdate.armhf or ./formula_1_playdate.aarch64 based on ${DEVICE_ARCH} (if i remember variable name correctly) and thats whats missing in your call in the sh file but update from portmaster should address that

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as the call is ./formula_1_playdate.${DEVICE_ARCH}

young jacinth Mar 10, 2024, 11:19 PM

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It's a good idea, just need to have the pm version people need

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but sooner or later all will have it

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:20 PM

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yeah i inspired myself on abe's adventure example

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:20 PM

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Precisely. That variable for DEVICE_ARCH I'm aware wasn't added until recently. When I ran the update from the PortMaster GUI at first and saw it extracting I took for granted that it updated to the latest and just went to testing the game. Little did I know, it hadn't updated at all 😦 . That link that kloptops posted is a self extracting sh script to install that version of PM with - I'm okay with this

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 11:21 PM

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loud nova also had the issue of ${DEVICE_ARCH} var not being set

Maybe if device_arch is blank set it to aarch64?

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:22 PM

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yeah as a default

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:22 PM

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tough umbra Maybe if device_arch is blank set it to aarch64?

That's actually not a terrible idea

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:22 PM

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there are some other ports doing this exact same thing though (as i had based myself on those) so they may need to have that update as well

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:23 PM

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Although this is probably already known, that self extractor just did a nice job slapping a clean newer copy of PortMaster and also updated from that to the newest without hassle after running it.

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:24 PM

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yeah and at least this var issue should be gone now

tough umbra Mar 10, 2024, 11:24 PM

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Teamwork. LinkYay

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:24 PM

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✅ RG351P/ArkOS

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Formula 1 Playdate G&W working fine on 480x320

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:24 PM

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cool

kindred light Mar 10, 2024, 11:25 PM

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Huzzah!

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:25 PM

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i'll still see if i can push a change for that empty var

loud nova Mar 10, 2024, 11:59 PM

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i changed that par in SH script to this it still worked on my arkos RGB30 and muos RG35XX plus (armhf) but we may need to find someone with a broken portmaster install (possibly RGB30 arkos might do). I also tried updateding the zip in main post but that failed so will make a link to this new zip

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ARCH="$DEVICE_ARCH"

#for old portmaster installs where DEVICE_ARCH may not be defined or empty take the (previous) default
if [[ -z "$ARCH" ]]; then
   ARCH="aarch64"
fi

#required or select + start won't quit on arkos
if [[ "$CFW_NAME" == *"ArkOS"* ]]; then
   program="formula_1_playd"
else
   program="formula_1_playdate.$ARCH"
fi

$GPTOKEYB "$program" -c "./formula_1_playdate.gptk" &
./formula_1_playdate.${ARCH}
...
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young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:00 AM

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loud nova i changed that par in SH script to this it still worked on my arkos RGB30 and mu...

I would just rename it for all

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Goal is to keep the .sh files as short as possible

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:01 AM

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not sure i understand

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:01 AM

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loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:01 AM

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yes but still don't understand

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arkos uses different name

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for some reason

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:02 AM

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yeah but if you rename it

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it works on all

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:02 AM

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well i wanted to do that initially but thats what kloptops gave me

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:03 AM

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We just don't want to do os speicfic fixes. Only if really necessary

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I came across this issue too

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I just renamed the binary and worked fine after that

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You're doing it already in the if statement

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:04 AM

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i'll rename to game.$ARCH then if thats fine ?

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:04 AM

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yep

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:04 AM

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ok

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:07 AM

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about this part

ARCH="$DEVICE_ARCH"

#for old portmaster installs where DEVICE_ARCH may not be defined or empty take the (previous) default
if [[ -z "$ARCH" ]]; then
   ARCH="aarch64"
fi```

Why not do the check on $DEVICE_ARCH directly?

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:07 AM

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because it can be set

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and you want the set value then

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:07 AM

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You can set $DEVICE_ARCH too no?

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overwriting it

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:07 AM

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yes but was not sure if that is ok

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i can change it

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:08 AM

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The less custom stuff we add the better ^^

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:09 AM

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does the if needs changing ?

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like is the variable empty or not set

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from what i saw online those checks differ

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:10 AM

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ARCH="${ARCH:-aarch64}"

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:10 AM

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thanks

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:10 AM

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but thats with arch

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😛

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with $DEVICE_ARCH of course 🙂

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:10 AM

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and the - is required ?

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:11 AM

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loud nova and the - is required ?

yeah, checks if value left is unset or null

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:11 AM

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ah i see thats better than an if indeed

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:11 AM

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in theory 😄

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so in the end the only thing we need is

DEVICE_ARCH="${DEVICE_ARCH:-aarch64}"
./game.${DEVICE_ARCH}```

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or whatever you want to rename it to ^^

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:15 AM

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yup thats what i changed it to 🙂

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:15 AM

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Awesome

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Btw, we're never static. There might always be better way

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:22 AM

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ok all changed stilled worked on my muos (RG35XX armhf) & arkos (RGB30 aarch64) but we may need someone with (very) old portmaster to test the default thing

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:23 AM

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loud nova ok all changed stilled worked on my muos (RG35XX armhf) & arkos (RGB30 aarch64) ...

@kindred light

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?

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😄

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:23 AM

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he fixed his portmaster

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:26 AM

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I can still do it, actually. I have another SD card with ArkOS loaded that I haven't updated PM yet FWIW. Gimme a sec 351p

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:31 AM

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😄

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:39 AM

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✅ RG351P/ArkOS, PM 2024.03.10.0841
❌ RG351P/ArkOS, PM 8.5.17
This is a tad interesting:

📎 log.txt

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:39 AM

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hmm ld_library_path not working ?

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let me check 🙂

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wait no

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it's got same problem

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hang on

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:40 AM

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By the looks of it, it appears to have applied the aarch64 to the variable from your script, but...

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:40 AM

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yeah i need todo it earlier

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libs.armhf libs.aarch64

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:41 AM

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That makes sense

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:45 AM

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that should work for the libs

📎 formula_1_playdate.zip

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:46 AM

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ah

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😛

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:46 AM

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good that we tested 🙂

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now i can search how to undo a commit in git cmdline

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or do you guys squash merge ?

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:49 AM

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✅ RG351P/ArkOS, PM 8.5.17

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:49 AM

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cool 🙂

young jacinth Mar 11, 2024, 12:49 AM

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Yes

kindred light Mar 11, 2024, 12:55 AM

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Just for the sake of re-test after changes (also decided to update to the beta release of PM to be a bit extra)
✅ RG351P/ArkOS, PM 2024.03.10-1231

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 12:57 AM

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ah thats good yes, i had teste on RGB 30 (arkos aarch64) and RG35XX plus (muos armhf)

tough umbra Mar 11, 2024, 1:42 AM

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@loud nova merged. ❤️

loud nova Mar 11, 2024, 1:44 AM

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cool thanks. I can start doing the other now (from my playdate games first) as they all use same libs so should be fairly straightforward. Thanks all for testing

tough umbra Mar 11, 2024, 1:45 AM

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Thanks for porting your work. We try to make it as easy as possible, there’s a bit of teething issues with the latest release because of that broken build. Which is entirely my fault. doggokek

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